The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-17
Weekly News Summary.

FIRE in the shavings-shed at Hollis bobbin-
mill, Burlington, did some damage Sunday.
A RAILROAD workman named O'Niel was
run over and killed by the cars at North
Pownal.
CAMPERS at Thompson's Point Lake
Champlain caught three hundred pike in
one day.
Mrs. WILLIAM WILKINS of Ludlow took
cedar and tansy oil, but prompt medical as
sistance saved her life.
The Montvert Hotel at Middletown
Springs, is now busy place, having three
hundred eighty-six boarders.
Il. T. DowNEY, stone-cutter, of Thetford,
was run over and killed by train ON the
Northern IN. H. railroad on the 9th.
The Lake Champlain Spiritualist camp
meeting opened at Queen City Park yester-
day and continues to September 18th.
MARIAN HARLAND and Margaret T.. Sang
ster, two noted literary ladies', are spending
the summer at the Alburgh Springs House.
GEORGE Powers and Bert Patterson, the
boys who disappeared from their homes in
Rutland recently, were found at Cuttings
Vile.
REV COLUMBUS GREEN of Washington,
ID. G. formerly of Montgomery, is i'll at the
residence of Dea Noah Thompson in Col
chester,
The barns on the Smith farm in I'm
derhil were burned, with their contents
and some stock, last Thursday. Insured
for S775.
The new town hall building at Bellows
Falls has been accepted by the building
committee, but the opera hall is not yet
completed.
PATRICK BARRETT, a wealthy farmer and
selectman of the town of Underhill, was
drowned the 1lth while bathing, at Pleas
ant Valley.
THE horse-breeders of Caledonia, Or
leans and Essex counties have formed an
association, with w. S. Bailey of East Hard
wick as president.
THE Vermont Live Stock Company is ar
ranging to ship about fifteen hundred head
of fat cattle to the Chicago market from
their Dakota ranch.
The annual Vermont state camp-meeting
of the Seventh Day Adventsts will be held
at Vergennes, commencing the 23d instant
and ending the Both.
The ninth annual convention of the
Episcopal parish choirs of the diocese of
Vermont will be held September 10Th in
St. Paul's church, Windsor.
THE Methodist society of Montgomery
has received gift of one hundred dollars
from Harvey G.. Brown of Toledo, Ohio,
who was a native of that town.
AMONG the odd things which are sent by
mail now was a wedding dress which was
recently sent all made from a dress-maker's
here to a prospective bride in Montana
Newport Correspondence.
AT Burlington, Sunday evening, Mr. and
Mrs. G. f. Ward and Mr.. and Mrs. w. f.
Bowman were thrown from a carriage by.a
pair of runaway horses and all but Mrs.
Ward were slightly injured.
ELIHU SMITH, who died at Rutland the
10th instant, aged eighty-four, was an in
ventor of considerable ingenuity, especially
in the stove and range line. He de-
vised the dry-air refrigerator.
MEssRs. GEORGE II. FRARY of Jonesvile
and Ben. Swift of Burlington have returned
from pedestrian trip in the Adirondacks,
covering over one hundred sixty miles on
foot in their eleven days trip.
A. G.. ALLEN of Brattleboro lost a barn
by fire the other day. a horse, hog and
six lambs were burned, with quantity of
hay. The property was insured in the Yer
mont Mutual for about 81, 200.
AMOS BARNUM of Monkton, a well-to-do
farmer, cut his throat the 18th, but not with
fatal results and has been taken to Brattle-
boro He had been melancholy for some
time from fear that his family would starve.
THE docket for the September term of the
Orleans county court has one hundred
thrty-eight entries of civil causes and
twenty-eight chancery cases. The term of
court will open September I, Judge Neazey
presiding.
this year will be larger success than ever.
Entries are pouring in from every direction,
and with suitable weather the joint exhibit
ton will surpass anything heretofore seen
in the state.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says James Nor
rill is rapidly improving and Senator Nor
rill hopes to be able to start North with him
in special car direct for his Vermont
home The intense heat has been a very
severe ordeal for Senator Morrill, himself.
The following patents have been granted
to Vermonters: James Canning, Mont
pelier, belt-shifter; John H. French, Rut-
land, pump; Levi X, Fuller, Brattleboro,
assignor to Estey Organ Company, octave
coupler; Eli Hawley, Manchester, centri-
fugal pump.
THE one hundredth anniversary of the
establishment of what is now the State
Normal School at Castleton was observed
last week Wednesday with interesting
exercises. John |. Gilbert of Malone de-
livered the address, and there We're other
exercises and banquet
ABOUT one-half of the bank wall east of
the high school building in Windsor fell out
August II from the pressure of the bank. 1t
will cost several hundred dollars to replace
it. The building itself is cracked in several
places in consequence of the settling of the
foundation. 1t was built last year and cost
$1,000.
"A NUMBER OF Une cltlIt1lS OF Fdlr haven
complain to the interstate commission
that the Delaware & Hudson Canal Com
pany charges So per carload for the haul
ing of coal and lumber from Whitehall to
Fair Haven, nine miles, which rate they
maintain is unreasonable and contrary to
the interstate act.
DURING the recent storms in Hinesburgh
haystacks We're blown over, barns unroofed
and fruit and forest-trees broken or torn up
by the roots, The apple orchards are nearly
stripped of fruit and the damage to corn
and grain is large. In the south part of the
town, after the hail-storm of July 2Sth, hail
stones could be shoveled up by the wagon
load and in sheltered places the ice did not
disappear until the next day.
SEVERAL years ago Joseph Cogan, pro
prietor of the Massachusetts House al
Rouse's Point, n. Y, had his safe robbed
Friday G. Il. Hogle, who has just torn down
his old barn in Swanton, found under the
floor a large pocket-book containing Co
gans naturalization papers, notes to the
amount of over two thousand dollars (al
but one hundred and seventy-seven dollars
of which are outlawed) also receipts, orders
two railroad passes and other papers. Al
old-fashioned safe-key was found with the
pocket-book
TwENTY-ONE survivors in Vermont of thu
war of 1912 draw pensions at the United
States pension Office in Concord, n, II
They are Peter Woodman, Lyndon Center
John Young, Bridgewater; Harry Hunt
Brooksville; Ira Hill, Isle La Motto; Jacol
Huntley, Pleasant Valley; John b. Hollen
beck, Burlington; Richard IL. Johnson
Franklin; Joseph Livermore, Hartland
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